“These are serious accusations, now!,” Swift continues, speaking of the media reports. “It’s an interesting way to spin something into a story. See, this is why I don’t read stuff.” The singer—who has found family approval in Conor’s 84-year-old grandmother Ethel—also commented on the story that she and her boyfriend had crashed a Kennedy wedding.

“I have no idea what happened there,” Swift said of reports that she had appeared, uninvited, to the August nuptials of Conor’s cousin Kyle Kennedy in Boston. (It did not help that one of the reports was made by the bride’s mother, Victoria Gifford Kennedy, to the Boston Herald.) “I have no idea what happened there. I think the story was based on the biggest misunderstanding, ’cause I would never knowingly show up somewhere that I thought I wasn’t invited to. And I would never want to upstage anybody.”

While Swift did not comment on rumors that her boyfriend’s father, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., does not approve of the relationship, she did obliquely address the issue. “The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks.”